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They say only the dead can cross a Threshold, the dead and those, who have faced a Nemesis Charm. When Apprentice Adventurers, Fletcher and Scoop, discover their mother has fallen under the curse of a strange sickness, they prepare to sail for its source, a Threshold, a doorway to the world beyond the Un-Crossable Boundary. But, they are not the only ones seeking to cross the Threshold. Their old enemy, Grizelda, has heard that beyond the Boundary...
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The full power of the freezing water crashed into them, knocking them off their feet, snatching Tara's breath away. She managed to hook one arm around the handrail, trying her best to hold onto Lucy with the other. As one side of the bridge collapsed, Lucy's feet scrabbled to keep a footing, but she slipped down the wooden planks.
Tara lost her grip, but managed to grab Lucy's hand as she held it out. She was, left dangling over the water.
'I can't...
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Jake's sisters have been important to the health and welfare of the kingdom. Jake has been on the outside looking in on their adventures in The Princess Gardener, and The Alyssa Chronicle. But now, it's his turn. He's been, watching from high in the trees, and now with a little help from some magical old friends, Jake finds transformation and the natural world as easy as the quick shake of a squirrel's tail. Jake's Book is volume III of The Princess...
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A Shadow's Tale is an Urban Fantasy/Bildungsroman that follows the life of a half-demon girl as she comes to terms with who she is. The life of one of every two half demons is controlled by prophecy. The more powerful the demonic parent, the more impact the prophecy has on the hybrid's life. When the half-demon race willfully became extinct, certain prophecies were deemed never to come to pass. They were wrong. Shadow has to learn how to cope with...
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Gigan Ticks foretell the end of time. The world is beginning to fade. As the NIGHTMARE army advances, can Fletcher and Scoop cross the Threshold into our world? Will they be able to reunite their creators, before they slip into oblivion? Fletcher and Scoop are apprentice adventurers at Blotting's Academy, where all Story Characters are, trained. Join them on their final feat as they discover the cost of crossing the Boundary in Daniel Ingram Brown's...
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Eleven-year-old Emma doesn't, know that she comes from generations of tree singers, passed from mother to daughter. She doesn't, believe she can sing. Her ailing grandmother has just come to live with the family. Her father is hardly ever at home. Her mother has been acting strange. To add to Emma's troubles, her mother's great uncle from England is coming to stay. Then, a strange old woman wearing a hat full of feathers appears mysteriously in her...
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Never try to open the locked doors. Never question what you are, told. And, never attempt to cross the Boundary. Kept inside an eerie estate for their entire lives, Penny and her five friends have had no contact with the outside world, with their only windows being a handful of books, a sinister master and a secretive housekeeper. Fed up of living a mystery, Penny begins breaking all the rules and finally tries to escape; but what she uncovers is...
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When her grandmother's ashes along with a family portrait arrive at her home in England, fourteen-year-old Tatiana finds herself being, tormented by supernatural forces. To free herself from the increasingly persistent hauntings, she has to find and release the ghost of an ancestor caught up in the terror of the French Revolution. With the aid of her cousin, Marcus, she sets out on a mission, which leads them through, the dramas of present-day life...
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When a teenage priestess, living 5,000 years ago in Ancient Egypt, connects with Rhory, an English schoolboy visiting the British Museum, she puts herself and him in grave danger. The link they forge through the pathways of time is noticed. She must escape the murderous followers of the God Set, and Rhory is hunted by their modern counterparts, the nefarious Society of Secrets.
10) Emajen
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Emajen is a world, similar to Earth. Doodland is a world, where all the sketches that human beings doodle spring to life. Crevitos is, a cruel and beautiful Creation, with multi-world domination and devastation in mind. Two youngsters from Earth, Destiny and Anthony, become embroiled in a complex expedition to save Emajen from Crevitos' tyranny and his growing army of almost invincible Creations.
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Melody is on a quest to discover her real identity and purpose when she encounters a dryad on Ealing Common! After hearing the dryad's prophecy, Melody's day becomes even stranger when she spots a unicorn in Oxford Street, and follows it into the mysterious Otherworld. Returning to the human world, further adventures finally lead Melody to Tower Bridge and a confrontation with a dragon...
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